2020

Last night, December 19, 2020, the Kaneshie Market in Accra caught fire and burnt. The incident is just one of the strings of fires at markets in the country. While these are not new, there appears to be no clarity surrounding the…

India has become the second country after the United States to surpass 10 million total coronavirus cases, health ministry data showed Saturday. But the milestone comes as trends in recent weeks show a significant decline in both new…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna on Friday, marking the second vaccine to receive FDA approval. The FDA approval comes after a panel of outside…

Deportations from Germany significantly dropped in 2020, partly because of the coronavirus pandemic. From January to the end of October, 8,802 people were deported from Germany, the Interior Ministry's state secretary Volkmar Vogel said…

The failure of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to prioritise malaria control programmes in the district's financial plans and budgets is an affront to measures to fight the disease. Again the absence of…

Mr Kwaku Owusu Baah, Board Chairman of the Cocoa Processing Company Limited (CPCL) says the Company is now better placed to retool and rehabilitate its obsolete plant and machinery to fully increase its production and consumption base.…

Only seven per cent of Persons Living with Disability (PWDs) benefit from the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP), a research conducted by the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD), has revealed. The programme, which was…

A German-based Ghanaian scientist has been sworn in as the 22nd Asafohene by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the King of Asante Kingdom. Asafo Boakye Agyemang Bonsu, succeeds Asafo Akowua II who was recently destooled by the Asantehene over…

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) and German Cooperation have signed a financing agreement to mobilise investments and promote job-creation by enterprises. The €762,300 Project, dubbed: "Invest for Jobs," is an initiative of…

Twenty-six persons were on Thursday arrested for protesting unlawfully against the Electoral Commission's (EC) declaration of the presidential elections results last week. The Accra Regional Command of the Police Service arrested the…